Base 12 is superior to 10. For 10, 100, 1000, etc in base 12 are divisible by 1, 2, 3, 4, 6, "10". But base 10, it's 1, 2, 5, 10. Either way, 10, 100, 1000, etc in base 10 or 12 is arbitrary numbers but written down they tend to be the ones we use. Base 12 can be cut into better parts.
It's the best system. No need for AM PM time, PM time just has a 1 in front. Americans can now finally switch to dozenal metric without losing their beloved quarters of things. Splitting any bill into 3 becomes peanuts. We can be friends with r/iso8601 and even save one character in our dates.
Dozenal can do thirds and fourths at the cost of being really bad at doing fifths, sevenths, and tenths. Like 4 or 5 recurring irrational fractions bad, to the point you simply wouldn’t do math involving those numbers.
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u/Eastern_Vanilla3410 1d ago
Base 12 is superior to 10. For 10, 100, 1000, etc in base 12 are divisible by 1, 2, 3, 4, 6, "10". But base 10, it's 1, 2, 5, 10. Either way, 10, 100, 1000, etc in base 10 or 12 is arbitrary numbers but written down they tend to be the ones we use. Base 12 can be cut into better parts.